L-188 Electra / Eastern (Hockey Stick scheme)Lockheed L 188 Electra Eastern Airlines airplane model. The design of the Lockheed L 188 Electra began in 1954, and in the following year the company received a launching order for the airplane from American Airlines. The prototype was first flown on December 6, 1957. Standard accommodation on the airplane was for 66 to 80 passengers, but a high density arrangement was available optionally to seat 98. A total of 170 airplanes had been built when

Whitney R-2800-34 radial engine

Its mission equipment package includes forward-looking infrared (FLIR) and image intensified television sensors for night pilotage and target acquisition

for the air forces of the UK

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird airplane model

but the order was later canceled in favor of the B-36

or infra-red guided bomb (including AGM-G5 "Marerick" air-to-ground) missiles

and Avro Canada in particular

The DC-6 could maintain the cabin pressure of 5

making him our nation's second highest scoring ace

The affordable J3 Cub became a runaway sales success and several thousand were sold before the USA's entry into WW2 saw all J3 production built for the US Army as the L4

production rates climbed as high as 1

but a month later - on 26 June1942 - it was re-engined with a 2000hp Pratt and Whitney R-2800 (the birth of the F6F therefore coinciding almost exactly with the great carrier Battle of Midway